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Religion fades in the U.S.

A very interesting piece on the decline of religion in the United States from the excellent ‘Why Evolution is True’ site. As an Englishman I have found the recent surge of Atheism in the US to be quite interesting. I wasn’t fully aware until recently that there was such stigma facing Atheists over there, in fact, according to recent studies most North Americans would not elect an atheist to government, so it’s exciting to see that secularism and atheism is taking off in such a big way despite such stigma being attached to the idea.

This is the genuine Good News. Tobin highlights three conclusions (his words are indented)

1. The “nones” are growing. “Nones are those people who report no formal affiliation with an established church, i.e., have no religious preference. Not all of these are nonbelievers; in fact, I think most of them are either believers who haven’t found a place to worship or have a diffuse kind of “spirituality.” Nevertheless, more than 1 in 5 Americans is now a…